An effective method for color image retrieval based on texture

This paper presents an effective color image retrieval method based on texture, which uses the color co-occurrence matrix to extract the texture feature and measure the similarity of two color images. Due to the color information such as components and distribution is also taken into consideration, the feature obtained not only reflects the texture correlation but also represents the color information. As a result, our proposed method is superior to the gray-level co-occurrence matrix method and color histogram method, and it enhances the retrieval accuracy which is measured in terms of the recall and precision in the meanwhile.

Research highlights
► This paper presents an effective color image retrieval method based on texture.
► We use color co-occurrence matrix to extract texture feature and measure similarity.
► Color information such as components and distribution is taken into consideration.
► It greatly enhances the retrieval accuracy.